Category Archives: Canadian Press
Euro 2016 seen by 2 billion on TV; 600M tune in for final
GENEVA - Boosted by Cristiano Ronaldo’s title run and Iceland’s feel-good story, the 2016 European Championship attracted 2 billion people to watch live on television. The total live audie...
Dec 15, 2016
Decades of lobbying finally move feds to comprehensive ban on asbestos by 2018
OTTAWA - Michelle Cote says her father didn’t want to see anyone else have their life choked from them the way he did before succumbing to asbestos-related disease last July. Cote added a human ...
Dec 15, 2016
Diana Ross, Mary J. Blige, John Legend headline 2017 Essence
NEW ORLEANS - For the first time, music icon Diana Ross brings her star power to a stage at the 2017 Essence Festival in New Orleans. Ross was among the headliners announced Thursday for the festival ...
Dec 15, 2016
Thousands of Pakistanis bury singer killed in plane crash
KARACHI, Pakistan - Thousands of mourners have attended the funeral of a popular Pakistani pop-singer-turned-Islamic-preacher who died in a plane crash last week along with his wife and 45 other passe...
Dec 15, 2016
Murdoch's 21st Century Fox gets Sky backing for bid
LONDON - Rupert Murdoch took a big step toward consolidating his power base in British media after his U.S. media group Twenty-First Century Fox agreed Thursday to buy the shares it doesn’t alre...
Dec 15, 2016
A Trump bump? American refugee claims in Canada increased last month
WASHINGTON - The number of Americans seeking refugee status in Canada has experienced a significant bump this year, increasing more than five times in November 2016 from the same period a year earlier...
Dec 15, 2016
Nova Scotia surplus tightens to $12.1 million on shrinking revenues
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s finance minister says the provincial surplus is shrinking, and there simply isn’t room to sweeten salary offers to the province’s unhappy teachers and civil s...
Dec 15, 2016
Ryan Lochte, fiancee announce pregnancy with underwater pics
Ryan Lochte has jumped in the pool to announce that he and fiancee Kayla Rae Reid are expecting a baby. The Olympic swimmer and the former Playboy model shared pictures on Instagram of Lochte under wa...
Dec 15, 2016
Bomb in teashop explodes in Somalia's capital, killing 6
MOGADISHU, Somalia - A bomb hidden inside a teashop in Somalia’s capital exploded Thursday, killing four soldiers and two civilians, a Somali military official said. The attack followed a suicid...
Dec 15, 2016
Report: Beijing adds weapons to South China Sea islands
BEIJING - China appears to have installed anti-aircraft and anti-missile weapons on its man-made islands in the strategically vital South China Sea, a U.S. security think-tank says, upping the stakes ...
Dec 15, 2016